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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health. It was established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
 
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION,
REGIONAL OFFICE FOR THE WESTERN PACIFIC

The Western Pacific Region, one of the six regions of the World Health Organization, is home to approximately 1.6 billion people in Asia and Pacific. There are various developments on Healthy Cities and Healthy Islands in this region since later 1980s. WHO/WPRO has worked with local and national partners by setting up models and demonstration sites, deriving and disseminating best practices, evaluating healthy settings, and developing technical guidelines on healthy cities and healthy settings programmes.
 
Healthy Settings, WHO
Healthy Settings, the settings-based approaches to health promotion, involve a holistic and multi-disciplinary method which integrates action across risk factors. The goal is to maximize disease prevention via a "whole system" approach. The settings approach has roots in the WHO Health for All strategy and, more specifically, the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. Healthy Settings key principles include community participation, partnership, empowerment and equity.

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